Weekend UK Yoga Retreat for Women

Join this nurturing, developmental yoga retreat designed specifically for women between the age of 40 and 70 particularly to support those going through transformations and changes related to mid-life and menopause. Through yoga, you will learn to build a stronger sense of confidence that will prepare you to face the challenges of your life with a renewed love, respect, and trust in yourself.

Highlights

Daily yoga classes

Asana and pranayama sessions

Mindfulness-based meditation sessions

Daily informational workshops

2 nights accommodation

Daily vegetarian meals

Skill level

Beginner

Intermediate

Styles

Accommodation

During this retreat, you will stay either in a shared or a private room. The house has five bedrooms each with their own balcony. The four rooms located upstairs are ensuite and have their own balcony to look out over the meadow and the downstairs rooms have access to a shared bathroom. This space is suitable for creative courses, retreats, families, or small groups who are looking for somewhere beautiful to relax, write, or just stop the world for a while.

Downstairs the house, there is an enormous open plan sitting room with underfloor heating perfect for yoga with a little furniture rearrangement, for writing, or also for creative brainstorming. There is a lounge area around the wood burner, a dining room with an open-plan kitchen and the deck and enormous lawns offer even more space to breathe in the beauty and tranquility of the Sussex countryside.

Sussex House Party Yoga Holiday UK Program

During this weekend, you will learn to address existing emotional and physical challenges in a nurturing atmosphere to share and explore ways to strengthen, heal, and find an inner balance. You will be inspired to draw upon your own natural resources through specific mindful yoga techniques including asana practice, directed breathing, and meditation.

You will leave with helpful advice, techniques, and recommendations in order to pursue your own personal practice and begin to build up an invaluable toolkit to support your daily life.

Gangama yoga

The name Gangama was inspired by the power and energy source of India’s mother Ganga; the most sacred river and a lifeline to millions, worshiped as the goddess Ganga. The founder, Tan Gangar, has explored a wide variety of yoga styles, philosophy, and teachings in order to build her own unique approach for women.

Yoga sessions

Yoga is the mind and body workout. It was originated in India many centuries ago and helps you to connect the breath to the body and the mind to the muscles. Therefore, through regular yoga practice, you can alleviate the menopausal symptoms and create balance and harmony throughout. Yoga is more than just a physical experience; it builds strength, detoxifies, and improves flexibility in the muscles as well as promoting inner stillness, peace, and a calmness of the mind.

Through regular yoga practice, your overall muscle tone will improve, your spine will become strong, supple and flexible, improving all the systems in the body, like digestion, skin texture, circulation, and in turn, strengthening your immune system giving you a stronger sense of confidence. The practices will be suited for beginners and intermediate levels.

Friday

16:00 Welcome

17:30 Yoga asana including moon salutation and pranayama

19:00 Dinner

20:30 Dhyana and satsang

Saturday

07:30 Yoga asana, sun salutation, and pranayama

09:00 Breakfast followed by free time

11:45 Yoga asana and pranayama

13:00 Lunch followed by free time

16:00 Walking meditation (weather dependent) and mantra

16:30 Yoga asana (Restorative), pranayama, and yoga Nidra

19:00 Dinner

20:00 Dhyana and satsang

Sunday

07:30 Meditation and yoga asana including sun salutations

09:00 Breakfast followed by free time

11:30 Yoga asana and pranayama

13:00 Lunch followed by free time

15:00 Yoga asana and pranayama followed by departure

Instructors

Tan Gangar

Yoga Alliance UK
(Restorative Yoga)

Tan Gangar is a registered teacher at Yoga Alliance United Kingdom and a regular resident teacher at the prestigious Partmath Niketan Yoga Ashram in Rishikesh by the banks of the river Ganga. It was there that she developed and nurtured her unique technique and style. She also runs her own practice in Brighton, UK, and offers private and group sessions on request.

Location

This retreat will be held at A Sussex House in Sussex, UK. A Sussex House is off a quite lane just outside Laughton near Lewes in the heart of the East Sussex countryside. The nine acres of flat meadow and woodland offer a blank page for photographers and filmmakers to paint their pictures. It is located only an hour away from London and 25 minutes from Brighton, it’s an accessible way to get to the middle of nowhere.

Activities

General

Services

Food

During this retreat, you will be served three daily delicious vegetarian meals.

Things to do (optional)

During your free time, you may assist to additional activities like art and color therapies. There is also available plenty of woodland and lanes for walks within the nine acres of secluded meadow and woods.

Spa treatments

During this retreat, you may enjoy optional Reiki treatments for an additional cost.

What's included

All yoga and meditation sessions

2 nights accommodation

3 daily vegetarian meals

Asana and pranayama practice

What's not included

Additional activities

Airfare

Airport and local transportation

Reiki treatments

How to get there

Arrival by train

The nearest train stations are Lewes or Glynde. There is a taxi rank at Lewes but not at Glynde. You may contact Sussex House Party for advice on car sharing or cab numbers.